City Maps: Eric Benson, Janice Caswell, Alex Lopez, Ruth Root

City Maps: Eric Benson, Janice Caswell, Alex Lopez, Ruth Root

Artpace Exhibitions

About City Maps: Eric Benson, Janice Caswell, Alex Lopez, Ruth Root

Erik Benson’s panoramic paintings suggest an urban space where architecture displaces those who use it. Focusing on the way we move through parks and streets, Benson hints at how those spaces exist in memory, and proposes that architecture gives life to us just as we bring life to it. Benson’s work has been exhibited at RARE, New York, NY (2003), Finesilver / FYI, San Antonio, TX (2003), and the Bronx Museum of the Arts, NY (2002).

Alex Lopez’s abstract “snapshots” of suburban infrastructure call attention to zones that are frequently marginalized in portrayals of the city (parking lots, roadways, rivers, streetlights)—mapping what life looks like outside the city center. Lopez has been included in exhibitions at the Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX (2003), the McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX (2002), and McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas, TX (1999).